MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged on Wednesday for trying to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. The bribe attempt, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson previously called “an attack on our criminal justice system,” brought…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A fifty year prison sentence is handed down to 29-year-old Nicholas Nesdahl of Williston for seven counts of producing child porn. Nesdahl was sentenced in federal court in Bismarck. He plead guilty to the charges back in March. He was given 30 years in federal prison in North Dakota along with 20 years in Pennsylvania. Prosecutors…
FARGO (KVRR) – (UPDATE 11:24 pm) – The Fargo Police Dept. says 24-year-old Fargo resident, Zion Brooks, was the victim that died on Monday. Fargo Police have released the name of a person of interest in a Monday night homicide. They are looking for 20-year-old J’Veonte Malike Logan, also known as Amire Logan, of Fargo. A person has died after…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo teen accused of firing shots near Ed Clapp Elementary School last July has now pleaded guilty. 19-year-old Mario Lighthall will have to serve two years before he is eligible for probation on the charges of aggravated assault, terrorizing and reckless endangerment all with a dangerous weapon. Lighthall is being given credit for 260 days…
FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – Former North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg will plead guilty to traveling to the Czech Republic to have sex with children. In a plea agreement, Holmberg admits that he repeatedly traveled from North Dakota to Prague between 2011 and 2016 to have sex with adolescent-aged children and that there is enough evidence of it to find…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley held a press conference to discuss the release of the 2023 North Dakota Crime Data Report. The report, which categorizes crimes reported to police across the state, showed a marginal increase in so-called Group A Offenses, which include crimes like murder, robbery and drug violations. According to the report there…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A high-risk sex offender has gone missing. Fargo Parole, Probation, and Pretrial Services Office says the global positioning monitoring bracelet for 61-year-old Ronald Thompson is not registering and can no longer be located. His bracelet showed his last location was in Grand Forks. Thompson is currently on supervision for possession of meth and unlawful possession of…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KFGO) – A Fergus Falls Police officer is recovering after their leg was broken during an arrest. According to court documents, a Fergus Falls officer stopped a vehicle for dark tint just around 7:30 Monday evening. During the stop, the driver, 62-year-old Joseph Cross, reached toward his side, in what appeared to be an attempt to hide an…
FILE – A bump stock is displayed in Harrisonburg, Va., on March 15, 2019. The Supreme Court has struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would have outlawed bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A man found lying in the street, bleeding from his nose and mouth, told police he was assaulted by a man who threatened to “rip his face off”. Fargo Police identified Ahmed Hassan as the suspect and arrested him for aggravated assault and robbery. The attack happened around 5 a.m. Sunday in the 700 block of…
